It is time for South Africa’s biggest construction companies to “share” with small and medium-sized industry players, says South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) chair Themba Mhambi.
Speaking at an event in Cape Town on Friday evening, Mhambi said court action over the agency’s new tender scoring system by major construction companies will not deter Sanral from pursuing real transformation of the sector.
“We are going to damage Sanral if we destroy the big construction companies such as WBHO, Murray & Roberts, Haw and Inglis and so on. If we destroy them we will be destroying Sanral and South Africa. Therefore don’t believe the lies that we want to kill these construction companies.
“We don’t want to do that. We want to support them, we want to strengthen them to get more business but there is one condition. That condition is that they must understand that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white,” said Mhambi.
He stressed it is time for black South Africans — Africans, Indians and coloureds — who had previously been excluded from benefitting from massive infrastructure projects to benefit alongside the well-established industry players.
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